Horse's Coco Hempy 400w CMH Vertical Crawlspace Grow 2010

[Tmac12]

Hay Tmac, thanks for checkin' in. Happy new year to you and Mr Tmac... where the hell do these old years keep going?

I am not sure, but they seem to be moving along very fast! Time used to go alot slower when I had kids and school calenders. Always knew about whatever holiday was coming up back then, now I say holy sh*t its halloween tomorrow! And heck I got a calender on the wall...... why dont I look at it!!

(not that anyone trick or treats up here near us )

 

[Mmmmick]

Hi Horse, gonna be some fat tops in there.

PG's take is probably the fix you need. The girls looked so healthy other than the curl. Most nute issues would have shown some leaf damage. Good luck.

Nice trich action!!!

 

[HorseBadoritz]

I am not sure, but they seem to be moving along very fast! Time used to go alot slower when I had kids and school calenders. Always knew about whatever holiday was coming up back then, now I say holy sh*t its halloween tomorrow! And heck I got a calender on the wall...... why dont I look at it!!

(not that anyone trick or treats up here near us )

Hay, trichs are treats

 

[HorseBadoritz]

Hi Horse, gonna be some fat tops in there.

PG's take is probably the fix you need. The girls looked so healthy other than the curl. Most nute issues would have shown some leaf damage. Good luck.

Nice trich action!!!

Thanks Mick, but dang, I wish they looked as fat up close and personal as my camera makes them Now I know what Oprah is bitching about

Keepin' it trichy n icky

 

[Propa Gator]

Big green thumbs up for the humid upgrade, Hoss. Water-stressed plants don't beef-up so hot. Should they get thick, dense and heavy: lower humidity may be necessary at the end.
Early trichs are the first to degrade to amber. New trichs on new growth take longer. With PE, I just wait until the stigmas are mostly all brownish. Plenty of growers will say I'm wrong about this, but... When they're done swelling, I'm done waiting. Fiskar time!

 

[HorseBadoritz]

Big green thumbs up for the humid upgrade, Hoss. Water-stressed plants don't beef-up so hot. Should they get thick, dense and heavy: lower humidity may be necessary at the end.
Early trichs are the first to degrade to amber. New trichs on new growth take longer. With PE, I just wait until the stigmas are mostly all brownish. Plenty of growers will say I'm wrong about this, but... When they're done swelling, I'm done waiting. Fiskar time!

Well, I certainly have the technology to lower the humidity if need be! Don't know if it's the Jacks, the CMH, or the humidity snafu but the feather tips are turning brown faster than I am used to seeing. I'll have to spend a lot of time observing

 

[Barry Manilow]

Stay on it Horse! You have a recliner in there?

 

[HorseBadoritz]

Stay on it Horse! You have a recliner in there?

Gotta keep the recliner open for OMM's visits

 

[Two Tokes]

Gotta keep the recliner open for OMM's visits

A Budalounger?

 

[HorseBadoritz]

A Budalounger?

Back here they're BudzyBoys!

 

[Two Tokes]

Back here they're BudzyBoys!

The model with the built in umbrella drink holder?

 

[HorseBadoritz]

The model with the built in umbrella drink holder?

You could make a million back here... ours just come with a roll of duct tape and a cup cake wrapper

 

[Two Tokes]

A least there will be good herb!

 

[IrishBoy]

looking good buddy nice frost on them girls. ive been reading a few things about the claw, seem like everyone has their own opinion on why plants do it, but the ones that seem to be more common is too much Nitrogen, ir medium is staying to wet. dose ur medium stay wet all the time? ive been keeping a eye on this when reading the web ill post what i find to see if it helps?

girls looking goo either way though.

 

[Siscokid]

Looks like you'll be a busy man, lots of bud-sites to take the "Fiskars" to.

 

[Barry Manilow]

How's things in the crawl Horse?

 

[Two Tokes]

Just checking in. Long time no Horse!

 

[HorseBadoritz]

High All,

I'm still kickin', thanks for checking. Crazy busy with life... but Big Jack is doing time out in a dark closet... I'll be baaaack

 

[HorseBadoritz]

High everyone who has been following. The garden is still going even if the journaling slacked off.

Big Jack looked like she hit the wall on the 18th. She'd been flowering under 12/12 for 63 days, but had pistils since I received her as a clone back in July.

The humidity, or more exactly, the lack thereof, slowed her down pretty good, and the CMH toasted the dessicated fans that I hadn't pinched.

So no more white pistils showing seemed like a good time to end it.

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No water for 3 days. I had to tie her up to get her through a 2/0 closet door. She stayed in the dark for 30 hrs.

Trimmed her up the next day

About 300g wet weight. I was hoping for 2ozs dry. Small buds, a little airy, but stiiiiiiky, and a sweet, spicey/floral smell. Nice.

Root ball was pretty cool. She had about 3" of hydroton on top.

Roots were up to within a 1/2" of the top of the hydroton. I couldn't even dig all the balls out. It looked like some kind gnarly mass I'd seen in a scifi flick... hydroton pods ensnared in some kind of mutant root mass.

I couldn't even bust up the coco, and the roots had pretty much captured the perlite at the bottom. The ball was pretty danged dry, too.

I had a Jamaican plant hermie on Dec. 1st, and had left the pot out. Here's that root ball.

The coco was still damp, you can see from the color, the perlite and coco was not nearly so ensconced in the root mass. It knocked apart pretty easily. Not sure what any of that means. I imagine the roots had degraded a bunch over a month and a half... but boy, they were two different balls from the same potting method.

I'll put the rest in the next post.

 

[Two Tokes]

Good to see some more vertical cmh buds. Big Jack's leftovers look very smokable.

That bent over shape is really tripped out as is the root ball.

Going to do more vertical in the crawl?